Monday, April 17, 2017

Humans on the Verge of Causing Earth’s Fastest Climate Change in 50m Years

Humans are changing Earth’s climate at an alarmingly fast rate
Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and in the combined solar and carbon dioxide forcing over the past 420 million years. (Illustration Credit: Foster et al. (2017); Nature Communications) Click to Enlarge.
A new study published in Nature Communications looks at changes in solar activity and carbon dioxide levels over the past 420 million years.  The authors found that on our current path, by mid-century humans will be causing the fastest climate change in approximately 50 million years, and if we burn all available fossil fuels, we’ll cause the fastest change in the entire 420 million year record.

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